(1) After making such inquiries as may be prescribed, the competent

authority may recommend any local area comprising a revenue village, or a group of revenue villages, or hamlets forming part of a revenue village, for being specified a village under clause (g) of article 243 of the Constitution if the population of such local area does not exceed 1 [twenty-five thousand.]

1. (2) After consultation with the taluka panchayat, the district panchayat and village panchayat concerned (if already constituted), the competent authority may at any time recommend inclusion within or exclusion from any villages any local area or otherwise alternation of limits of any village, or recommend cesser of any local area to be a village, to the Governor for exercise of his powers under clause (g) of article 243 of the the Constitution.